"Sir chairman, do you have any plans for the Drow Kingdom in the future?" Kennard asked.
"Drow Kingdom?"
Xu Yi knit his brows. He shook his head and threw out the cruel and terrifying scenes of the riot that filled his mind.
Before this, although he had lived on the continent for more than ten years, when he looked at the other people of the Sines Continent, he always had an objective attitude of not caring about them and rarely truly immersed himself in them.
However, after seeing the tragic scenes of the riot in the Drow Kingdom, this was the first time he felt a bit of hatred that came from the bottom of his heart.
If he judged it from a personal point of view, he really wanted to exterminate the Drow Clan.
However, his reason told him that even if there were countless Drow Clansmen that participated in the riot, that didn't mean that the Drow Clansmen were all sinners.
From an objective point of view, if he exterminated the Drow Clan because of this, what difference was there between him and the Drow Clansmen that participated in the riot?
After thinking for a bit, Xu Yi replied, "Now that the company's guards have entered the Drow Kingdom, as long as we strengthen our control over the Drow Kingdom, those despicable Drow Clansmen won't be able to cause any more trouble."
"So I'm asking … …" A strange look appeared on Kennard's face.
"Sir chairman, have you thought about how to strengthen your control over the Drow Kingdom?"
Xu Yi was a bit surprised. Seeing Kennard's deep look, he asked back, "What do you want to say?"
"Sir chairman, the Drow Kingdom is over four thousand kilometers away from our company's main base.
Even with the help of the Magic Airship, it will take close to two days to get there.
With such a long distance, it's very hard for us to truly control the Drow Kingdom with just three thousand guards. "
"So?"
"So I'm thinking ….. Should we be a bit more thorough?"
"Oh?
What do you think is considered thorough enough? "Xu Yi looked at Kennard with an interested look.
Seeing that Xu Yi was interested, Kennard was shocked. He stood up and walked over to the map of the Sines on the wall, slapping the Drow Kingdom on the map.
"Sir chairman, look, the Drow Kingdom is connected to the Kandla Empire to the west, the eastern countries of the continent to the east, and a thousand kilometers to the south is the endless sea. It can be considered the most important country in the eastern part of the continent.
If we want to promote our company's products to the eastern and northeastern countries, we can't avoid the Drow Kingdom. "
"Un, I know this. That's why. That's why I've sent sent guards to the Drow Kingdom, it's to make it easier for the company to operate in the future."
"Sir President, you have great foresight. Of course, you can see the importance of the Drow Kingdom.
But I feel that … you haven't done enough, "Kenna said seriously.
What is it that I haven't done enough? "
"You should know that the Drow Kingdom can be considered a single nation made up entirely of the Drow Clan.
This kind of nation can be said to be the most cohesive, but also the most dangerous.
Although we've used force to suppress the Drow Clan's resistance, I'm sure that after they've calmed down, they will inevitably clash with the outsiders in the Drow Kingdom.
And the guards that our company has left there will become their primary target. "
"Your concerns are not wrong, this is also something I've been worried about." Xu Yi nodded.
"If it's only three thousand guards, it's not a problem to protect the base and control a part of the region, but it's a bit difficult to control the entire Drow Kingdom.
But our company only has twenty thousand guards, it's impossible to send that many people. "
"That's why we should be a bit more thorough.
Since it's impossible to completely control the Drow Clan, it's better to just eliminate them. That way we won't have to worry about this problem. "
Xu Yi looked at Kennard in surprise and said with a frown, "I thought you would give a more constructive suggestion.
Eliminating all the Drow Clan might not be difficult for us, but we can't bear the consequences of doing so.
Something like exterminating an entire clan would have a serious impact on anyone's reputation, not to mention that we're a company that places great importance on reputation. "
"No, no, no, sir chairman, you misunderstand.
When I said exterminate the Dero clansmen, I didn't mean exterminate them physically, but spiritually. "
"Spiritually?" Xu Yi looked at Kennard with a puzzled expression.
"How do we do that?"
"The reason why the Dero clansmen are so united and xenophobic is because almost all of the Dero clansmen live their entire lives in the Dero Kingdom and never go to other places.
If we can disperse them, their cohesiveness will naturally weaken.
If we increase the ratio of people inside and outside the Drow Kingdom, then as time passes, the number of Drow Clan in the Drow Kingdom will decrease and this problem will no longer exist. "
Xu Yi looked at the eloquent Kennard and couldn't help but laugh in his heart.
He had to admit that Kennard's idea was very creative, but in terms of practicality, it was almost nil.
On Earth, there were countless cases of people wanting to divide a clan and thus disintegrate it from the inside. However, every case had to pay an extremely painful price, and the final result was always a mess.
Although Xu Yi didn't dare to say that he knew the Sines like the back of his hand, but according to Earth's history, it was almost impossible to rely on Kennard's idea to solve the problem of the Drow Clan.
Of course, he wouldn't directly say his own judgment, but after thinking for a while, he nodded to Kennard and said, "You can try this idea.
But I have to remind you that this method will take a lot of effort and a long time. Are you sure you want to do this? "
Kennard rolled his eyes and didn't answer this question. Instead, he asked, "Then sir president, there is a much simpler method.
That is to directly destroy the Drow Kingdom and bring it under the name of our New Flyer. What do you think? "
Xu Yi looked at the anticipation in Kennard's eyes and didn't say anything.
This wasn't the first time he heard this suggestion.
During this time, there were many high level members of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce who had mentioned this when discussing the Drow Kingdom rebellion with Xu Yi. Even Arch Magus Camilla had said that "it's better to just make this country disappear".
It had to be admitted that this suggestion was very feasible and tempting.
For the people of the Sines, it wasn't strange for countries to fight each other and even lead to the destruction of a country.
During the expansion of the two empires hundreds of years ago, they had destroyed countless small countries.
The tradition of the Sines was that the strong were the kings. If you were killed by a powerful enemy, you could only blame yourself for being weak and couldn't blame others.
Therefore, if you directly sent troops to destroy a country in the Sines, you wouldn't be subjected to endless public criticism and social pressure like on Earth. Instead, it would only make others more respectful of your strength.
In this kind of atmosphere, even though the New Flyer was only a chamber of commerce and couldn't be considered a country, as long as you had the ability to destroy the Drow Kingdom, the people of the Sines wouldn't say anything.
Not to mention, if one were to calculate the influence of public opinion, most of the newspapers and the most effective Magic Illusion Projectors that could influence public opinion were directly or indirectly controlled by the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce. There was no need to worry at all.
Even Xu Yi himself had seriously considered this suggestion because this was the most simple and crude method to solve this problem.
However, there was a problem that was difficult to solve, so Xu Yi couldn't really use this plan.
As mentioned before, the New Flyer was a chamber of commerce and not a country.
The biggest difference between a chamber of commerce and a country was that a chamber of commerce was only responsible for its own management and didn't need to pay attention to other aspects.
Even though the New Flyer's scale was countless times larger than before, with the total number of employees under its name reaching close to two hundred thousand, and its various branches spread across almost all the countries on the continent.
However, the New Flyer was still only responsible for matters related to the chamber of commerce.
Compared to a country's economy, people's livelihood, politics, land, security, and so on, a chamber of commerce needed much less time to consider.
Even if the Principality of Constantine, which could be considered the smallest chamber of commerce in the Sines, the matters that the Parliament needed to deal with were numerous and extremely complicated.
With the resources that Xu Yi currently had, it wasn't enough to develop the New Flyer, let alone control an entire country.
Moreover, Xu Yi was very self-aware.
It was already a bit difficult for him to manage a chamber of commerce, so he had given a lot of management matters to his subordinates like Kennard. If he were to become the head of a country and manage an entire country, he would be thanking the heavens if he didn't become an incapable ruler.
Moreover, he wasn't interested in this at all.
As a mechanical engineer who had been passionate about mechanical research since he was young, his greatest interest was in mechanical research.
After transmigrating to this continent, his dream was to perfectly combine magic, something that didn't exist on Earth, with machinery to create a complete magic industrial system that belonged to this continent.
The reason why he was vigorously developing military magic machines was only to support him in realizing this dream.
Destroying the Drow Kingdom wasn't difficult for the powerful New Flyer Guards, but how to deal with it after destroying the Drow Kingdom was the biggest problem.
All kinds of problems flashed through Xu Yi's mind, then he shook his head at Kennard and said, "Directly destroying the Drow Kingdom is too troublesome.
If you're willing to spend a lot of energy and have enough patience, then I'll allow you to use the chamber of commerce's limited resources to realize your first idea. "
Kennard immediately smiled.
"Sir Chairman, as I expected, you'll still make this choice."
Xu Yi smiled, tacitly agreeing.